STATEMENT BY TODD.
DISPOSAL OF THE BODY. The prisoner Todd has made a ifcatement to the police. He says ;hat he was intimate with the girl Ambrose, and when she became enjeinte he had a conversation with Redalsfei, who said that for his sake 3he would remove the cause of trouble. Redalski accordingly took the girl into her bouse as a servant. On the day that the girl died, Reialski and Jamieson (Dubberke), informed him that after using some Oondy'a fluid, the deceased had givan a loud scream and immediately fell back dead. The two women tried to restore consciousness by applying hot water bottles and administering brandy, but without; success. Various methods were then discussed, says Todd, of disposing of the body, and finally it was decided to put it into the river, the two women undertaking to remove the clothing from the corpse and place it in a box belonging to Jamieson. Todd farther detailed bow he and Jamieson conveyed the improvised coffin in a trap to the banks of the Yarra, and threw it into the stream. He alleges that Jamieson subsequently informed him that she had burned the girl's clothes and, with a view to frustrating identification, had cut the hair off deceased's head.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1899, Page 2
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208STATEMENT BY TODD. Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1899, Page 2
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